Display name instead of username in Who is online module

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If you want to display the name of the user instead of the username in the Who is online module, you need to do the following steps. The module gets the data from the session table, but that table doesn't contain the name of the user, only the username and the userid. That's why you need to join the session and the users table in the sql query. For this open the /modules/mod_whosonline/helper.php file and change

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